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1 online resource (382 pages) |
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Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy |
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Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy.
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Cover -- Classical Modern Philosophy: A contemporary introduction -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Descartes and the Rise of Modern Philosophy -- 1.1 Background to Descartes' Meditations -- 1.2 Descartes' innovations in how philosophy is written -- 1.3 Lead-in to the First Meditation -- 1.4 The First Meditation -- 1.5 The Second Meditation -- 1.6 The Third Meditation -- 1.7 The Fourth Meditation -- 1.8 The Fifth Meditation -- 1.9 The Sixth Meditation -- 1.10 A summary of key Cartesian commitments -- 1.11 Topical highlights from Descartes' correspondence -- 1.12 Questions about Descartes -- 1.13 Transition to the remainder of the book -- 1.14 Some Recommended Books -- 2 Spinoza -- 2.1 Overview of Spinoza's philosophy and life -- 2.2 Ethics Part I: On the nature of the universe -- 2.3 Ethics Part II: On the nature and origin of the mind -- 2.4 Ethics Part III: On the nature and origin of actions and passions -- 2.5 Ethics Part IV: On the burdens of human existence and the ways to overcome them -- 2.6 Ethics Part V: On the power of reason to liberate us to live blessedly -- 2.7 Questions about Spinoza -- 2.8 Some recommended books -- 3 Locke -- 3.1 An overview of Locke's outlook in the Essay -- 3.2 Essay Book I: Locke's anti-innatist strategy -- 3.3 Essay Book II: Perception as the basis for all thinking -- 3.4 Test Case One:Thinking about power -- 3.5 Test Case Two:Thinking about substance -- 3.6 Test Case Three:Thinking about identity -- 3.7 Essay Book III: Expressing thought in language -- 3.8 Essay Book IV: Knowledge and opinion -- 3.9 Questions about Locke -- 3.10 Some recommended books -- 4 Leibniz -- 4.1 Background to Leibniz's philosophy -- 4.2 Overview of Leibniz's philosophy -- 4.3 How the Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology are structured |
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4.4 Understanding Leibniz's metaphysics by way of his defense of contingency -- 4.5 Understanding the debate about what things for Leibniz are substances -- 4.6 Understanding the debate about Leibniz's essentialism -- 4.7 Understanding what it means for the world to be the best possible -- 4.8 Understanding debates about relations among key Leibnizian theses -- 4.9 Space and time as relations among phenomena -- 4.10 Key elements of Leibniz's epistemology -- 4.11 Questions about Leibniz -- 4.12 Some recommended books -- 5 Berkeley -- 5.1 Overview of approach to the Principles -- 5.2 Structure of the Principles -- 5.3 A fuller analysis of four key arguments -- 5.4 Structure of the Three Dialogues -- 5.5 A mini-glossary to aid interpretation -- 5.6 Questions about Berkeley -- 5.7 Some recommended books -- 6 Hume -- 6.1 Main alternatives for interpreting Hume -- 6.2 An outline of the first Enquiry -- 6.3 Enquiry Sections I-III: Basic principles and materials of the understanding -- 6.4 Enquiry Sections IV-VII:The basis of all factual thinking -- 6.5 Enquiry Section VIII: Implications for freedom and morality -- 6.6 Enquiry Section X: Implications for religion based on miracles -- 6.7 Treatise: Overview and key elements of Book I, on the understanding -- 6.7.1 A famous perplexity about how to read Treatise Book I -- 6.8 Treatise:Key elements of Book II, on the passions -- 6.9 Treatise:Key elements of Book III, on morality -- 6.10 Dialogues: Overview and stage-setting Part I -- 6.11 Dialogues Parts II-VIII: Design argument for natural religion -- 6.12 Dialogues Part IX: Cosmological, a priori proof of theism -- 6.13 Dialogues Parts X-XI: Evil as challenge to theism -- 6.14 Dialogues Part XII: Guides to deciding Hume's overall message -- 6.15 Questions about Hume -- 6.16 Some recommended books -- 7 Kant -- 7.1 The central strand of Kant's argument |
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7.2 A précis of the Critique of Pure Reason -- 7.2.1 Prefaces and Introduction: Clarifying the project -- 7.2.2 Transcendental Aesthetic: How we receive data -- 7.2.3 Transcendental Analytic: How we understand data -- 7.2.4 Transcendental Dialectic:How we fundamentally misapply thought -- 7.3 Exploration of pivotal stages of Kant's argument -- 7.3.1 My general orientation to the Critique -- 7.3.2 Fuller analysis of introductory material -- 7.3.3 A fuller analysis of the Aesthetic -- 7.3.4 A fuller analysis of the Analytic of Concepts -- 7.3.5 A fuller analysis of the Analytic of Principles -- 7.3.6 The transition from Analytic to Dialectic -- 7.3.7 A fuller analysis of the Transcendental Dialectic -- 7.3.8 The transition from theoretical to practical philosophy -- 7.4 The philosophical foundations for moral theory -- 7.5 Kant on philosophical method -- 7.6 The Prolegomena's relation to the Critique -- 7.7 Questions about Kant -- 7.8 Some recommended books -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Classical Modern Philosophy introduces students to the key philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and explores their most important works. Jeffrey Tlumak takes the reader on a chronological journey from Descartes to Kant, tracing the themes that run through the period and their interrelations. The main texts covered are:Descartes' Meditations on First PhilosophySpinoza's EthicsLocke's Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingLeibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics and MonadologyBerkeley's> |
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Print version record |
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Philosophy, Modern -- 17th century.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
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Philosophy, Modern
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203642429 |
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0203642422 |
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